crack

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Editorial note

There's a reason it's "crack baby", and not "cocaine baby".

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Quick take

a long narrow opening

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crack gathered in one view.

noun

a long narrow opening

noun

a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack"

noun

a long narrow depression in a surface

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crack.

noun

a long narrow opening

See also: cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure

noun

a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack"

noun

a long narrow depression in a surface

See also: crevice, cranny, fissure, chap

noun

a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"

noun

a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"

noun

witty remark

noun

a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror"

noun

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

noun

a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"

noun

the act of cracking something

verb

become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"

verb

make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"

verb

make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"

verb

hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"

verb

pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"

verb

break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"

verb

break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped"

verb

gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe"

verb

suffer a nervous breakdown

verb

tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"

verb

cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"

verb

reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking

verb

break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"

adjective

of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"

See also: ace, A-one, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch

Example sentences

There's a reason it's "crack baby", and not "cocaine baby".

Maybe they're trying to crack-down on that, and maybe they should publicly state that and update their terms.

Today the Google Alert I have set up for mentions of my Mac app lit up with a new crack on a warez site.

The data is not released to give the "winning" scientists first crack at interpreting the data.

I could have did something other than changing my passwords and hoping they didn't get crack them again.

This sort of reasoning is typical of people who 'crack' ciphers by coming up with all sorts of complex explanations.

They even took the ultimate snakeoil step of running a competition to crack their software.

Since the article text itself doesn't mention exactly why the name is so bad - Rego, the name of the product, is slang for ass crack in Portuguese.

And so, strong passwords are useless!Except that this has nothing at all to do with why passwords are bad. The problem GPU crackers exploit was solved over a decade ago with adaptive hashing.

My dad worked in an environment heavily impacted by the crack epidemic.

Why is DOM write permission not separated from DOM read perms?If Google doesn't crack down on abusive extensions like this, they risk users losing trust in the Chrome "brand".

It just looks like the sort of pattern spotting that the human brain is good at and doesn't seem to indicate any sort of systematic crack of Zodiac 340 at all.

The danger is that they crack the server and get the list of password hashes, at which point the time to crack a password is dictated by the hardware at their disposal and the hashing algorithm.

While you could say this stems from Java's enormous popularity, one interesting property of huge Java open-source projects is that I can usually crack open the code and quickly get a sense of how I could contribute to the system without breaking it.